well, consumer spending, con instructor spending, all of that is fine. so now they're saying, look, obama is failing because of the contraction their policies that we forced h imto put into place. >> and these are actual numbers, melissa, 9,000 government jobs were lost in january. 74,000 government jobs lost in 2012 alone. 600,000 government jobs lost since february, 2010. these are government jobs. >> right. and two things. remember, a lot of these are jobs that are happening at the state level. these are governors and local administrators, even mayors, who are cutting their city and state budgets. what we know is in 2010, we had a huge overtake of these gubernatorial positions by republicans who are primary republicans who are cutting these government jobs, often jobs that provided an opportunity to lift into the middle class, so many working class people, especially people of color. >> this is one of the reasons why the black unemployment numbers have not gone because we are over-indexed in the public sector. that the state and local republicans are